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Song Quotes by Rob Sheffield

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Rob Sheffield writes that a single song can hunt you down, no matter where you hide. He likens the rhythm of a mixtape to the hum of a romantic connection between two people. He also shares how listening to old tracks feels like a guided tour of his own past.

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“Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.”

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But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

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“Nothing connects to the moment like music.”

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“Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.”

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When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

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“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.”

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I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands…

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It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

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Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

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But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,…

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You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?"…

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I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can…

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Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own…

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It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird…

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In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about…

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“For all karaoke freaks around the nation, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of…

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The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to…

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Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate…

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The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you…

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“It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people…

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“The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.…

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The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well…

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“I thought, there is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment... There is nowhere else I could…

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Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get…

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“The Replacements made me feel a little less scared, because they made good imaginary friends. They looked like a band that would…

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“What I get out of karaoke is a little weirder than mere musical competence. It's a love ritual that keeps me coming…

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If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it…

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“Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out.…

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Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

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'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or…

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“The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there,…

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Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise…

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Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on…

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“It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.”

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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

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A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up…

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Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

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“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part…

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The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that…

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It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

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“You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a…